United States – For the purpose of conducting feasibility studies for a Direct Air Carbon Capture center in the US Pacific Northwest, the Removr consortium, located in Norway, has been given USD 3 million.
A collaboration of 13 public and commercial organizations received the grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out Phase I work for the Ankeron Carbon Management Hub, a large-scale direct air capture hub. The center will be situated in the Colombia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest and will work to scale up the best technologies for the removal, use, and long-term underground storage of carbon dioxide.
The Ankeron center is new in three key ways: community engagement, the use of clean energy, and technology innovation. It will be situated in eastern Washington state and Oregon. The Ankeron hub collaboration prioritizes local communities, the Justice40 and the DOE’s Carbon Negative Shot policy objectives, and local communities themselves in the project design and governance process. Additional renewable energy production will be encouraged by the hub. Finally, the hub will store carbon for the first time commercially in the US by mineralizing it in basaltic rock.
DAC funding
As part of a larger energy shift, the US government will allocate USD 3.5 billion in funding to regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) efforts.
Carbfix, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Rocky Mountains Institute, Washington State University, Fluor Corporation, AES, and Lanzatech are a few of the organizations that are partners in the Ankeron DAC Hub.
Being water-free, energy-efficient, and able to absorb CO2 from low concentrations all the way down to atmospheric levels are what make Removr’s technology special. The method is highly scalable because it may be situated anywhere and uses only renewable energy.
